O, such a terrible day! Rain, wind, sleet and everything to
make it gloomy. The Vermont troops have voted to-day as directed by the
Governor. My Company (E) cast seven votes for the Republican candidate. The
other men didn't know who the Democratic candidate was and so didn't vote.
Nothing has disgusted me so since I left Vermont. I'm sadly disappointed
politically, in my Company, but the men are good fighters and I like them. They
seem devoted to me. It is disappointing, though, to have to send such a report
to Vermont! It's mortifying! But I mustn't let the men know how I feel for it
can't be helped now. It makes me feel queer, though, for my Republicanism is as
staunch as the granite hill (the Bar re granite quarries) on which I was born.
I am dazed at the result of the vote in Company E! I guess I'm in the wrong pew
politically; very few democrats in Barre.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 144
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